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Analysis: Do we have to balance the right to health with the right to strike or do we have to ask different questions of government?

Posted in: Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, Latest

South Africa’s public health sector strikes often pit two rights against each other – the right of workers to strike and the rights of people to access healthcare services. Ufrieda Ho explores these tension points with the help of several relevant experts.

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Analysis: Do we have to balance the right to health with the right to strike or do we have to ask different questions of government?

Analysis: Does government have a moral obligation to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine?

Posted in: COVID-19, Latest

South Africa is likely headed for a third wave of COVID-19 infections, experts warn. With no windfall of vaccines in sight, many people at high risk of COVID-19 will remain unvaccinated. Now some doctors and medical ethicists are asking: Is a safe vaccine that could possibly protect them better than nothing?

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Analysis: Does government have a moral obligation to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine?

COVID-19: Will the right people get the vaccine first in SA?

Posted in: Latest

While local experts generally welcome the order in which vaccines will be provided to different categories of people in South Africa, they are concerned that some practical nuances are unclear. Elna Schütz reports.

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COVID-19: Will the right people get the vaccine first in SA?

IN DEPTH: Power grab or tying loose ends? Experts respond to new health regulations

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As Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize’s proposed amendments to regulations on notifiable medical conditions came under fire in Parliament this week, some public health and medical law experts welcomed the proposed amendments to the regulations and even made some suggestions on how it could be improved. Alicestine October took an in-depth look at what is at stake.

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IN DEPTH: Power grab or tying loose ends? Experts respond to new health regulations

Some TB patients still required to take pills in front of witnesses

Posted in: Edition 10: Drug-resistant TB, Edition 12: SA’s AIDS & TB response, Edition 14: Tuberculosis, Latest, TB, TB

Some tuberculosis patients in South Africa are still required to take their pills in front of a healthcare worker or family member. Is this a justified means of ensuring people take their medicine, or is it an invasion of personal autonomy? Elri Voigt asked local TB experts.

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Some TB patients still required to take pills in front of witnesses

Libyan embassy allegedly pressuring SA workers to test for HIV

Posted in: HIV/AIDS, Latest

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation is investigating allegations that South Africans working at the Libyan embassy in Pretoria were pressured to test and reveal their HIV status after asking to be tested for COVID-19.

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Libyan embassy allegedly pressuring SA workers to test for HIV

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